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This is a spectacular contemporary Mixed-media lithograph. Art Print of Cowboy Boots, Hand-Signed in Pencil by Photographer Paul Jasmin. This is a large, original fine art photograph, hand-signed in pencil and printed in the 1980s by artist and photographer Paul Jasmin. The image features a black-and-white photo of cowboy boots. Jasmin, one of the pioneers in airbrushing, painting, and hand-rendering details into photographs, created this piece during a time when cowboy boots were at the height of fashion in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This trend was widely adopted by movie stars, becoming the ultimate symbol of cool and hip style. Paul Jasmin, also known as Jasmine, was a sought-after figure among Hollywood’s A-list, counting iconic stars like Richard Gere, Paul Schrader, Liza Minnelli, Marisa Berenson, and Anthony Perkins among his friends. Jasmin was renowned for his celebrity portraits and iconic movie posters. He both influenced and was inspired by some of the most rebellious photographers of all time, including Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Francesco Scavullo, Richard Avedon, and Bruce Weber. During the 1980s in Los Angeles, Jasmin was at the forefront of pushing the medium to new levels. Many of these photographers were eager to return to black-and-white photography during that era, experimenting with ways to merge a classic style with the modern, retro New Wave and Punk fashion aesthetics. Paul Jasmin (American, b. 1935), "Cowboy Boots," 1979, mixed media print, pencil signed and dated lower right, edition 50, overall (with frame): 29.5"h x 29.5"w This beautiful and very collectible print is valued at over $2,000, and we will verify its availability upon your price inquiry. At BusaccaGallery.com, we vet all customers for transactions over $5,000 to ensure a secure and satisfactory experience for both parties. Please read the innovative story and watch the informative video we provide for each piece of these highly collectible works of art.

Paul Jasmin’s photographs are a dreamy tableau that takes the viewer on a journey of seductive beauty and erotic ennui. Lost Angeles highlights the last 50 years Jasmin has spent photographing L.A.’s young dreamers. Jasmin’s images eloquently mirror the mythology of the city in the vulnerability and intangible cool of his subjects. There is life in his portraits of smiling girls and strong and frail men – and the never-fading love for the Los Angeles street scenes. There is a nostalgic myth of a splendid and ideal aesthetic, stopped and caught forever. Paul Jasmin has had a long career as a fashion and art photographer. He was born in Helena, Montana and 1954 left to begin an incredible journey that would take him to Paris, Morocco, New York, and eventually “the city of dreams”, Los Angeles. Paul had been an illustrator, a painter, and an actor before picking up a camera – at the urging of his friend, Bruce Weber. Jasmin’s images of real and imagined dreamers evoke a sensual and glamorous ideal while firmly rooted in reality. His Editorial work appears in Vogue, Teen Vogue, GQ, Details, V Magazine, V Man, Vogue Hommes, W, Nylon, Interview, Mr. Porter, APC, Ron Herman, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks, and Nordstrom. Paul Jasmin lives and works in Los Angeles where he teaches at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Paul Jasmin’s photography books include the much-acclaimed Hollywood Cowboy (2002) and its follow up, Lost Angeles (2004). In December 2010, Steidl/7l published Paul’s third book, California Dreaming.